Instructions for Satisfaction with Salary


This is a study of satisfaction with salary and how it depends on comparisons of salary with salaries paid to others working in the same job.

Imagine that you have worked for a company for 2 years and you learn for the first time that not everyone doing the same work is paid the same. You find a list of 19 people who are doing the same work and have been evaluated as equally experienced, qualified, and productive.

Here is the list of the yearly salaries these people receive:

$40,000; $41,000; $41,500; $42,000; $42,600; $43,200;
$44,000; $44,500; $45,000; $46,000; $46,100; $47,800;
$48,000; $48,800; $49,400; $50,000; $52,000; $62,000; $70,000

Now, imagine that you are the one who is paid $40,000. How would you feel? Next, imagine that you are paid $70,000 per year. How happy would you be with your salary in that case? Please look again at the list and imagine yourself earning each of the different amounts.

Your task is to rate how dissatisfied or satisfied, how happy or unhappy, you would be if you received each of those salaries, now that you know what other people are getting who are doing the same work. Please make your ratings on the 7 point scale using integers from 1 to 7 to indicate how satisfied or dissatisfied you would feel about your salary:
1 = Not at all happy and 7 = extremely happy. Please review the entire list before you start to make your judgments.


Warm-up Trials

  W1. $40,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  W2. $44,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  W3. $48,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  W4. $70,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy


Please re-read the instructions, and then continue with these trials:

  1. $40,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  2. $41,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  3. $41,500     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  4. $42,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  5. $42,600     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  6. $43,200     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  7. $44,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  8. $44,500     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

  9. $45,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

10. $46,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

11. $46,100     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

12. $47,800     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

13. $48,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

14. $48,800     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

15. $49,400     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

16. $50,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

17. $52,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

18. $62,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy

19. $70,000     Not at all Happy Extremely Happy



20. Are you Male or Female?
Female
Male

21. What is your age? years.

22. What is the highest level of education you have completed?

23. Nationality (e.g., USA, UK, France,):

24. How many hours per week do you work for pay? (if full-time, put 40).
Hours/week

25. What is your yearly income (in $USD), rounded to the nearest $1000? (e.g., for $41,120, type 41).
$ Thousand USD

26. COMMENTS:

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Thank You!